I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that read more

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater
pleasures.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a
negative thought.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a
negative thought.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"
probably lost.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"
probably lost.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for
everyone. It requires no force or effort or read more

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for
everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little
more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as read more

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.